FIVE months ago, they were a happy family with a healthy baby who had smooth skin and a charming smile.

Now the family is in shock.

Their baby is skin and bones and his life is hanging by a thread after a vaccine injection, they claim.

Apple Daily reported that on Oct 26, little Ruirui received a Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) injection at a hospital in Zhejiang province, China.

A month after the vaccination - which was supposed to have protected the child against tuberculosis - the seven-month-old started losing his hair, and his lymph nodes started to swell.Little Ruirui was a healthy baby who had smooth skin and a charming smile.

Now, Ruirui has wrinkled and tattered skin, and is painfully thin.

His father, Mr Zhang Bin, told Apple Daily in a telephone interview that his son had not had any skin problems before the injection.

Pre-natal tests and blood tests conducted after the boy's birth did not indicate any abnormalities.

"But after the injection, he's become like this," said Mr Zhang. "The hospitals and the health department are indifferent to our plight."

The Zhangs have taken their baby for treatment at hospitals in Hangzhou and Shanghai, but they can no longer afford the high medical expenses, which came up to RMB3,000 (S$575) aday.

verykiasu2010 wrote:sorry to say this but i never trust the following from China :

medicine, vaccine, doctors, and food

Gosh...like that how to live in China for work posting?

in the early 90s, we brought our own butter, coffee, etc from overseas

in the early 2000s, we still brought our own soya sauce, pagoda brand salt, SIS sugar, imported milk powder (which they still buy from HK on day trip these days).....buy your supplies from the 'foreigner' supermarket

and all these years, always carry own medicine from singapore, including syringe for injection - brought from singapore, and of course personal thermometer

did you read the news in the papers today about the extreme amount of chemicals used to grow watermelons in china. it caused the watermelons to burst thus dashing the hopes of farmers hoping to make a quick bucks.

LOLMum wrote:did you read the news in the papers today about the extreme amount of chemicals used to grow watermelons in china. it caused the watermelons to burst thus dashing the hopes of farmers hoping to make a quick bucks.

it is a well know fact. not only watermelon : also peaches, longan, lychee, mandarins, oranges, apples, you name it

during the peak of the bird flu a few years back, you can find young spring chicken for sale in the market

people may think that at least they have not used growth hormone to grow it till fat and big ....... but those were actually sick birds about to die, quickly slaughtered to avoid selling dead birds.......lol